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Ad Vitam, ou Ad Vitam Distribution, est un distributeur indépendant de film français.
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The Royal Exchange (2017)
, 1h40Directed by Marc Dugain
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about children, Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, Histoire de France, Films about royalty, LGBT-related film
Actors Lambert Wilson, Anamaria Vartolomei, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Mouchet, Kacey Mottet-Klein, Maya Sansa
En 1721, afin de maintenir la fragile paix obtenue après la guerre de Succession d'Espagne, le régent du Royaume de France, Philippe d'Orléans, organise un « échange » de princesses royales qui débouche sur les fiançailles du roi de France, Louis XV, âgé de 11 ans, avec Marie-Anne-Victoire d'Espagne, âgée de 3 ans, et celles du prince héritier espagnol Louis, 14 ans, avec Louise-Élisabeth d'Orléans, 12 ans. Mais ces unions apparaissent compromises.
Planetarium (2016)
, 1h45Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski
Origin France
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about films, Mise en scène d'un scénariste
Actors Natalie Portman, Louis Garrel, Lily-Rose Depp, Emmanuel Salinger, Amira Casar, Pierre Salvadori
Paris, fin des années 1930 ; Kate et Laura Barlow, deux jeunes Américaines médiums, finissent leur tournée mondiale.
Lumière! (2016)
, 1h30Directed by Thierry Frémaux
Origin France
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Thierry Frémaux, Auguste et Louis Lumière, Auguste Lumière, Martin Scorsese
En 1895, les frères Lumière inventent le Cinématographe et tournent parmi les tout-premiers films de l’histoire du cinéma. Mise en scène, travelling, trucage ou remake, ils inventent aussi l’art de filmer. Chefs-d’œuvre mondialement célèbres ou pépites méconnues, cette sélection de films restaurés offre un voyage aux origines du cinéma. Ces images inoubliables sont un regard unique sur la France et le Monde qui s’ouvrent au 20e siècle. Lumière, l’aventure du cinéma commence !
, 1h38Directed by Eva Husson
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, La sexualité des mineurs, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Finnegan Oldfield, Marilyn Lima, Olivia Lancelot, Tom DeLonge
La jolie jeune fille de seize ans, George, est amoureuse d’Alex et, pour ce faire, se prépare à un jeu collectif : ses amis et elle découvrent les limites de leur sexualité en pleins faubourgs aisés de Biarritz.
Son of Saul (2015)
, 1h47Directed by László Nemes
Origin Hongrie
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rechn, Sándor Zsótér, András Jeles
It is early October, 1944. Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian-Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz works as a Sonderkommando member, burning the dead. One day he finds the body of a boy he takes for his son. He tries to salvage the body from the flames, and find a rabbi to arrange a clandestine burial. Meanwhile other members of the Sonderkommando learn about their impending extermination, rise up and destroy the crematorium. Saul keeps focused on his own plan to pay the last honours to a son he never could take care of before.
May Allah Bless France! (2014)
, 1h35Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama
Themes La banlieue française, Dance films, Films about immigration, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, La précarité, Hip hop films, Films about Islam
Actors Marc Zinga, Gianni Giardinelli, Sabrina Ouazani, Karim Belkhadra, Mireille Perrier
Film adapté du roman autobiographique homonyme d'Abd Al Malik, Qu'Allah bénisse la France raconte le parcours de Régis, noir, enfant d'immigrés, surdoué, élevé par sa mère catholique avec ses deux frères, dans la cité du Neuhof à Strasbourg. Entre délinquance, rap et islam, il va découvrir l'amour et trouver sa voie grâce à la volonté de réussir et d'avoir un avenir meilleur.
Whiplash (2014)
, 1h46Directed by Damien Chazelle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist Wood, J. K. Simmons, Austin Stowell, Jayson Blair, Kofi Siriboe
Andrew Neiman is a first-year jazz student at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory in New York. He has been playing drums from a young age and aspires to become one of the greats like Buddy Rich. Famed conductor Terence Fletcher discovers Andrew practicing in the music room late one night and eventually invites him into his studio band as the alternative for core drummer Carl Tanner. Fletcher is abusive toward his students, mocking and insulting them; when the band rehearses the Hank Levy piece "Whiplash" and Andrew struggles to keep his tempo, Fletcher hurls a chair at him, slaps him, and berates him in front of the class.
Difret (2014)
, 1h39Origin éthiopie
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Political films
The film chronicles a legal-precedent setting court case that outlawed the kidnapping of child brides in Ethiopia. It tells the story of a 14-year-old girl, Hirut Assefa (based on Aberash Bekele), who is kidnapped on her way home from school and subsequently grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her village, the practice of abduction into marriage is common and one of Ethiopia's oldest traditions. Meaza Ashenafi, the founder of the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, arrives from the city to have her team represent Hirut and argue that she acted in self defence.
Grand Central (2013)
, 1h34Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films
Actors Léa Seydoux, Tahar Rahim, Olivier Gourmet, Denis Ménochet, Johan Libéreau, Nozha Khouadra
Gary, an unskilled young man, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. Inducted into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and veteran Toni, Gary discovers that radiation contamination is not just a risk factor but an everyday hazard. At the same time, he begins an illicit affair with Karole, the fiancée of Toni.
, 2h5Directed by Sylvie Verheyde
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lily Cole, August Diehl, Volker Bruch, Joséphine de La Baume, Guillaume Gallienne
Allusion au roman autobiographique La Confession d'un enfant du siècle d'Alfred de Musset, le film raconte la relation entre George Sand et l'auteur dans les années 1830.
Miss Bala (2011)
, 1h53Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Gangster films
Actors Miguel Couturier, Stephanie Sigman, James Russo
23-year-old Laura Guerrero (Sigman) lives with her father Ramón (Javier Zaragoza) and little brother Arturo (Juan Carlos Galván). Laura and her friend Suzu (Lakshmi Picazo) both enter the competition for the Miss Baja beauty pageant. They go to the Millennium Night Club, where Suzu meets her boyfriend Javi (Hugo Márquez). However, when Laura goes into the bathroom, she witnesses members of the La Estrella gang causing chaos by shooting randomly into the club. Frantic, she tries to search for Suzu, and as a result fails to show up for the early rehearsal for the pageant, and is ejected from the competition.
Take Shelter (2011)
, 2hDirected by Jeff Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films, Personne sourde ou muette
Actors Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Katy Mixon, Shea Whigham, Kathy Baker, Ray McKinnon
In Lagrange, Ohio, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) has apocalyptic dreams, and visual and auditory hallucinations, of rain "like motor oil", swarms of menacing black birds, and being harmed by people close to him; but, he hides all of this from his wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain), and their deaf daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart). He instead channels his anxieties into a compulsive obsession to build a storm shelter in his backyard; however, his increasingly strange behavior -- including a tendency to cut ties with anyone in his life that has harmed him only in his dreams -- strains his relationship with his family, friends, employer, and the close-knit town. Curtis grudgingly sees a counselor at a free clinic, with whom he talks about his family's psychological history (his mother (Kathy Baker) suffers from paranoid schizophrenia that surfaced in her at about the same age that Curtis is now).
Twiggy (2011)
, 1h21Directed by Emmanuelle Millet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Pregnancy films
Actors Christa Theret, Johan Libéreau, Anne Le Ny, Maud Wyler, Laure Duthilleul, Nina Meurisse
Sarah is 19 years old. She is a student in a museum in Marseille where she hopes to soon be tenured and resided in a home for young workers. Young woman alone, she is happy in this life. Fainting on the stairs of the museum when she wears a canvas will abruptly end this : the museum not hiring her anymore, without work, she has to leave her home, and above all, when nothing in her body would have left imagine, she learns that she is six months pregnant. She did a pregnancy denial and can not abort.
I Am Love (2010)
, 2hDirected by Luca Guadagnino
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Gabriele Ferzetti, Marisa Berenson, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Tilda Swinton, Alba Rohrwacher, Waris Ahluwalia
Milan, sous la neige. Une riche famille d'industriels lombards du textile s'apprête à fêter somptueusement l'anniversaire du patriarche, Edoardo Recchi. Celui-ci nomme deux héritiers pour gérer son empire : son fils, Tancredi et son petit-fils, Edoardo Jr. Tancredi, marié à Emma, d'origine russe.
This Is England (2007)
, 1h41Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about racism, Skinheads, Films about school violence
Actors Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Joseph Gilgun, Rosamund Hanson
In 1983, 12-year-old Shaun gets into a fight at school after a classmate makes an offensive joke about his father, who died in the Falklands War. On his way home, Shaun comes across a gang of young skinheads led by Woody, who feels sympathy for Shaun and invites him to join the group. They accept Shaun as a member, and he finds a big brother in Woody, while developing a romance with Smell, an older girl who dresses in a new wave style.